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| "The Coal Miner's Daughter" |
| "A wealthy landlord's son and a coal miner's daughter Growing up in poverty one of six siblings Hannah Armstrong never thought she'd know anything other than her little mining town But then she falls for Timothy Durkin a wealthy Oxford student Following her heart Hannah sacrifices everything she holds dear and follows her new husband to Oxford But will her new life of luxury be everything she expected - or will she find that once a coal miner's daughter always a coal miner's daughter?"
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| "Our Woodland Birds by Matt Sewell (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "Britain has some of the most beautiful woodland in the world with some of the most beautiful inhabitants All year round the trees in forests copses and wastelands offer our feathered friends food shelter and a place to congregate and show-off Now in this beautiful follow-up to Our Garden Birds and Our Songbirds street artist Matt Sewell captures Britain's unique woodland life with his charming and distinctive illustrations Featuring an array of enchanting scenes from bramble-picking Blue Tits and a flight of Finches to a parliament of young Tawny Owls Matt's quirky pop-art watercolours and whimsical descriptions express the individual characters of our woodland birds as never before A delightful gift this book will appeal to bird-watching enthusiasts children adults and art and design fans alike"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Little Red Train: Green Light by Benedict Blathwayt (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "When Duffy the driver is told to keep on going until the lights change that's exactly what he does - so he doesn't even notice that he's driven Little Red Train right under the channel to France! This is a gloriously detailed book that will be a joy to return to again and again With a minimal text and bright busy pages Ben Blathwayt's picture books have enormous appeal for young children"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Annie Rose Is My Little Sister by Shirley Hughes (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Annie Rose and Alfie have lots of games they like to play together like being scary monsters with Bernard or running their own shop But there are some things Annie Rose is too little to do and even some things Alfie would rather do without her But if Annie Rose is ever sad or cross there is only one person who can make her feel better her big brother This is Shirley Hughes at her best - warm and wonderfully observed illustrations and a touching text about the special bond between siblings"
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| "Beegu by Alexis Deacon (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Beegu is not supposed to be on Earth She is lost She is a friendly little creature but the Earth People don't seem very welcoming at all However so far she has only met the BIG ones The little ones are a different matter"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature After responding to several calls with paramedics he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people Researching it he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier Together the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way Lullaby is a comedydramatragedy In that order It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Vertigo by W. G. Sebald (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Part fiction part travelogue the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love the artistry of Pisanello a series of murders by a clandestine organisation a missing passport Casanova the suicide of a dinner companion stale apple cake the Great Fire of London a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Charity Girl" |
| "When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate Henrietta Silverdale? For all they refused to oblige their parents by marrying they have always been the best of friends But as Desford pursues Cherry's lickpenny grandfather and reprobate father around unfashionable watering places and the seedier fringes of society Hetta is forced to wonder whether he might not at last have fallen in love Without the timely intervention of his scapegrace brother Simon and Hetta's worthy suitor Gary Nethercott Desford is in danger of making a rare mess of his affairs Charity Girl is a wonderful romantic novel by the queen of the Regency romance and one of the most popular historical novelists of all time"
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| "Absalom, Absalom!" |
| "Quentin Compson and Shreve his Harvard room-mate are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen As a poor white boy Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler From then on he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land marriage children But in after the chaos of Civil War secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for"
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| "The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession"
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| "Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes Arsher Ali and Art MalikFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age while George remains in hard-working obscurity But as the new century begins they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality guilt and innocence identity nationality and race Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe what we know and what we can prove"
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| "New York" |
| "Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of this great city as no other author could - from the epic empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived today at breakneck speed The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village and the Dutch traders who first carved out their hopes amidst the splendour of the wilderness The British settlers and merchants followed with their aristocratic governors and unpopular taxation which led to rebellion war the burning of the city and the birth of the American Nation Yet a country that had already rent itself asunder once did so again over slavery As the country fought its bloody Civil War the city was torn apart by deadly riots Hopes and dreams greed and corruption - they have always been the companions of freedom and opportunity in the city's teeming streets As the immigrant ships berthed next to Ellis Island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty they poured more and more Germans Irish Italians and Jews into the churning ethnic mix of the city Deals were struck politicians corrupted men bought or assassinated heiresses wooed fortunes were speculated on Wall Street and men became rich beyond the dreams of avarice The heady seesaw of wealth and poverty was seen in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash the city's future symbolised by its buildings which literally touched the sky the Empire State the Chrysler Building the Twin Towers Rutherfurd tells this irresistible story through a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates interweave in the rise and fall fall and rise of the city's fortunes It is the story of how in four centuries New York became the envy of the world And in telling the story through the lens of New York Rutherfurd brings the story of America itself to unforgettable life in this epic masterpiece"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Poems by William Blake (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY PATTI SMITHWilliam Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers who as well as being a groundbreaking poet is also well known as a painter engraver radical and mystic Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps In this collection Patti Smith has collected together her personal selection of Blake's poems including the complete poems from the famous Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience to give a singular picture of this unique genius"
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| "The Queen's Husband: (Queen Victoria: Book 3) by Jean Plaidy (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "From the time they were in their cradles Victoria and Albert were destined for each other However the passive Albert is well aware that marriage to a quick-tempered demonstrative young woman like Victoria could result in unnecessary scenes and stormy court feuds And he is right The young Queen as well has having to endure her constant pregnancies is in perpetual revolt against any encroachment on her position - and Albert is doing just that Despite attempts on her life and crises like the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny her family - Albert and their nine children - is her prime concern The Victorian age is truly under way - but the real power behind the throne was the queen's husband"
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| "Middlemarch by George Eliot (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life&39; Dorothea is bright beautiful and rebellious Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world Middlemarch contains all of life the rich and the poor the conventional and the radical literature and science politics and romance but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart the roar on the other side of silence"
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| "Sushi and Beyond : What the Japanese Know About Cooking" |
| "His account of their foodie family road trip establishes Booth as the next Bill Bryson' New York Times Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth The creativity of the Japanese their dedication and ingenuity not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi-saturated West as are the remarkable health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet Food and travel writer Michael Booth sets of to take the culinary pulse of contemporary Japan and he and his young family travel the length of the country - from bear-infested beer-loving Hokkaido to snake-infested seaweed-loving Okinawa What do the Japanese know about food? Perhaps more than anyone else on earth judging by this fascinating and funny journey through an extraordinary food-obsessed country Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for the best book on food and travel"
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| "Real World" |
| "In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm the neighbour's son and a high school misfit But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them"
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| "Brunelleschi's Dome : The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence" |
| "Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296 the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build because of its enormous size The greatest architectural puzzle of its age when finally completed in 1436 the dome was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world It has gone down in history as a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture This book tells the extraordinary story of how the cupola was raised and of the dome&39;s architect the brilliant and volatile Filippo Brunelleschi Denounced as a madman at the start of his labours he was celebrated at their end as a great genius His life was one of ambition ingenuity rivalry and intrigue - a human drama set against the plagues wars political feuds and intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence the glorious era for which the dome remains the most compelling symbol Brunelleschi&39;s Dome was voted Non-Fiction Book of the Year by American Independent Booksellers"
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| "Archangel by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down whatever the consequences From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past"
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| "The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Tyrant blackmailer racketeer murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society Meet Don Corleone a friendly man a just man areasonable man The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra The Godfather A modern masterpieceThe Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia Still shocking forty years after it was first published this compelling tale of blackmail murder and family values is a true classic"
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| "Fractured: (Will Trent Series Book 2) by Karin Slaughter (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The second Will Trent novel from the No 1 Bestseller When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon she walks into a nightmare A broken window a bloody footprint on the stairs and most devastating of all the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing a man standing over her with a bloody knife The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever When the local police make a misjudgement which not only threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in danger the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - paired with detective Faith Mitchell a woman who resents him from their first meeting But in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer Will and Faith realise that they must work together to find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest most privileged communities - before it's too late"
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| "Edgelands by Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The wilderness is much closer than you think Passed through negotiated unnamed unacknowledged the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills lakes and rivers poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits business parks and landfill sites taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious forgotten regions in our midst Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild' and allows our allotments railways motorways wasteland and water a presence in the world and a strange beauty all of their own"
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| "Alex Cross's Trial: (Alex Cross 15) by James Patterson (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "From his grandmother Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan Now Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written - a novel called Trial As a lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases Fighting against oppression and racism he risks his family and his life in the process When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumours of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there he cannot refuse Arriving in Eudora Mississippi Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful daughter Moody Ben enlists their help and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town's black quarter live in constant fear Ben aims to break the reign of terror - but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross Alex Cross's Trial is a gripping story of murder love and above all bravery"
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| "Angels in My Hair" |
| "Angels In My Hair is the autobiography of a modern day mystic an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old When she was a child people thought Lorna was 'retarded' because she did not seem to be focusing on the world around her Instead Lorna was seeing angels and spirits As Lorna tells the story of her life the reader meets as she did the creatures from the spirit worlds who also inhabit our own - mostly angels of an astonishing beauty and variety - including the prophet Elijah and an Archangel but also the spirits of people who have died This remarkable document is the testimony of a woman who sees things beyond the range of our everyday experience"
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| "The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "The unforgettable story about a family with a secret at its core from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell author of Ralph's Party The Making of Us and Before I Met You When a tragedy breaks a family apart what can bring it back together?The Birds seem to be the perfect family mother father four children a picture-book cottage in the country But when something happens one Easter weekend it is so unexpected so devastating that no one can talk about it The family shatters seemingly for ever Until they are forced to return to the house they grew up in And to confront what really took place all those years ago"
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| "The Dogs Of War by Frederick Forsyth (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro one which could change the course of a nation's history forever But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find A ruthless and bloody-minded tycoon Manson immediately hires an army of mercenaries and with this deadly crew behind him he sets out to topple the government and replace its dictator with a puppet president But news of the discovery has reached Russia - and suddenly Manson finds he no longer makes the rules in this power game A game in which win or lose means life or death"
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| "So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much finally too much until jealously leads to murder and suicide A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator whose mother has died young and Cletus Smith the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered After the murder and upheavals that follow the boys never speak again Fifty years on the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret"
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| "Diamonds are Forever (James Bond 007) Paperback" |
| "&39;The twentieth century looked out at him from the piece of newsprint and bared its teeth in a sneer&39; From the diamond mines of Sierra Leone to the jewellers of Hatton Garden from race track to casinoBond must infiltrate and destroy the criminal network of the Spangled Mob in Fleming&39;s fourth 007 adventure"
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| "A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: The compelling Richard and Judy Summer Book Club winner Paperback" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN&39;S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK &39;Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher in the best way&39; InStyle Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 Now a widow living in America she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother and daughter When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt and humiliation of her early life the intoxication of a first romance and the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way she might still be alive today"
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| "The Button Box : The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore" |
| "A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight&39;s family - each one with its own tale to tell Tracing the story of women at home and in work from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning to the short skirts of the 1960s taking in suffragettes bachelor girls little dressmakers Biba and the hankering for vintage The Button Box lifts the lid on women&39;s lives and their clothes with elegance and wit"
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